The General Sherman tree is located in California’s Sequoia ... Their bark can be as thick as two feet, offering excellent protection against fire, which has become increasingly critical due ...

The General Sherman tree has a trunk volume of a whopping 1,487 metres cubed, making it the world’s largest tree by volume. No one has ever climbed the 2,200-year-old tree that was before this year.

By volume, the General Sherman is the largest known living single-stem tree on Earth and is estimated to be at least 2,200 years old. Experts say sequoia trees are very fire-resistant and have ...

“The General Sherman tree is doing fine right now,” said Anthony ... actually dying from kind of a combination of drought and fire that have weakened them to a point where they’re not ...